The creepiest page was in "Dream a Little Dream of Me" when they discover Rachel in the bed naked. She is
naked and her skin appears to have sore all over it, her hair is falling out and she looks like an addict. Which is
creepy to me because I can see the connection to her addiction to drugs and her addiction to the sand. When
John last saw her she was a drug addict and he now see her dependent on the sand for dreams. Rachel talks
about all she has to do is dream, and she has a hand filled with sand and when Dream takes back his bag of sand
she talks about how it hurts. She needs the sand to stay alive, to live, to easy the pain this is the behavior of an
addict. I found it interesting how Gaiman combined these two world into one world of abuse. It made be think
that anything can be an addiction and any addiction can destroy your life, which is why I thought it was creepy.
The power of the sand and Dream where both supernatural which makes this a Gothic story and not horror.
There is also elements of decay; the smell of the house and Rachel's bedroom, and Rachel herself is decaying.
The supernatural ability of the dreams on the walls that after Constantine touches it, he goes into a dream about
falling to his death. John is saved by the supernatural control that Dream has over all dreams.
The Sandman series are very interesting and I can see how people become addicted to them.
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